Rosa Parks: The First Lady of American Civil Rights - Episode 48

One of Rosa's most vivid childhood memories, was seeing her grandfather standing in the front yard of their home with a loaded shotgun as a group of Ku Klux Klan members marched down their street.

Unable to finish high school, she worked in a shirt factory, and later as a seamstress in a Montgomery, Alabama department store.  In 1932 and nineteen years old, she married Raymond Parks, a barber, and back then no one could have guessed - not in a million years - that a seamstress named Rosa would one day receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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